Medicine Road. Illustrated by Charles Vess.
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2004750317 · Burton, MI
by De Lint, Charles. [Vess, Charles; Illus.].
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2004. This delux signed edition is limited to 750 copies, of which this is copy 317. Signed by Author and Artist. Octavo, brown leatherette, gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, full-color illus. endpapers, 206 pp + Special Art Section [Additional Art Sketches by Charles Vess], of eleven pages. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. Canadian author De Lint and illustrator Vess make good medicine in this whimsical collaboration of words and images starring those rambunctious red-haired Dillard twins, Laurel and Bess, mentioned in 2002’s Seven Wild Sisters and now stage center in their own short novel...The mythic magic inevitable in all of De Lint’s best fantasies marks the spritied conclusion. “Laurel and Bess Dillard are sisters, musicians touring the Southwest playing their ‘old-timey’ music in bars and at parties...In the Sonoran Desert around Tuscon, and in excursions north, Laurel and Bess are drawn into an ages old wager between Native American spirits who take human form in this heartwarming example of the mythic fiction for which Charles de Lint is best known.” (Inventory #: 00093)